Motivational Quotes

Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech